Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
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Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
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Click on 'web' above and then you should quickly find a source article you can read with no paywall... sometimes. Works for this one, for me.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Users often post workarounds in the threads (edit: as someone now has in this one).
Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
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#6Does anyone know if going dockless increases ridership in any significant way? The consumer benefits seem great but it seems like such a nightmare to maintain compared to a docking system.
Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
#7This is a puzzle to me. Uber faces some critical issues ahead. If they can solve them, the bikes will be a rounding error. If they can't, the bike business won't be enough to save them. Why add the complexity when they could buy or build something later?
I especially can't figure out why the Jump CEO would do it. The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small. It reminds me of something like Dodgeball. (For those who don't remember, it was a company basically like Foursquare, but years before. Google bought it and did little with it. Eventually the founders got tired of it, left Google, and started the same company again.)
Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
#8Does anyone know if going dockless increases ridership in any significant way? The consumer benefits seem great but it seems like such a nightmare to maintain compared to a docking system.
Just the other day I saw some very dubious people on BART with dockless bikes. I had to wonder if there's a good secondary market in bike parts that makes those things worth stealing.
Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
#9Does anyone know if going dockless increases ridership in any significant way? The consumer benefits seem great but it seems like such a nightmare to maintain compared to a docking system.
Data point of one here, but docked bike share programs are a novelty for me, maybe useful on occasional weekends, but dockless makes it viable for replacing almost all use of public transit and ride sharing, including (especially) daily commute. Orders of magnitude difference in my personal usage.
Re: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
#10This is a puzzle to me. Uber faces some critical issues ahead. If they can solve them, the bikes will be a rounding error. If they can't, the bike business won't be enough to save them. Why add the complexity when they could buy or build something later? I especially can't figure out why the Jump CEO would do it. The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small. It reminds me of something like Dodg…
The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small.